The United States of America was built upon slavery and the displacement and murder of indigenous peoples.
Five years later, Clara Hanfield, the daughter of a powerful New York shipping magnate, escapes her tyrannical father and travels west in pursuit of John Elli.
Freed at the onset of the Civil War, he\'s alone, starving, and on the run from Confederate militiamen.
Born into slavery, Henry\'s young life is spent working in tobacco drying sheds on Missouri plantations.
The United States of America was built upon slavery and the displacement and murder of indigenous peoples